re: #8 i(m)p(each)sos

continued from downstream…

The more you travel around the country, the more you realize what the numbers REALLY look like. Walk around a neighborhood in Queens or Miami or LA or Minneapolis and then realize there are more people in that one neighborhood than in all the small towns combined in a lot of smaller states. And yet that neighborhood shares its senators (and EC votes) with tens of millions more people, while each of those little states gets two Senate votes and at least three EC votes.

And it’s an impossible structure to change, because the amendments that would change it require a significant percentage of those small states to vote quite clearly against their self-interest.

That’s actually one of my big worries - if the prediction comes true that 70% of Americans will elect 30% of the Senate, and the EC similarly continues its GOP-ward, antidemocratic skew, the overly-empowered Right will not make any accommodation, but rather will feel emboldened to rule America as a minority. At that point, I’m concerned that the “just consent” of the governed will be lost, and I don’t foresee a peaceful resolution.